The ancient city of Holmul isn’t much to look ... Nikolai Grube published a book called Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, which described the intertwining histories of the kingdoms of ...

Tomb of Hasaw Chan K’awil, a mighty king, who freed our ... things were important parts of Maya society. Art and architecture were important too. This is the ancient city of Tikal.

Archaeologists have uncovered new stucco reliefs at the ancient Maya city of Dzibanché, providing fresh insights into the ...

Even though they lived in different cities, ruled by different kings and queens ... Looking for more ways to introduce your class to ancient Maya? In this short video clip, Akbal introduces ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

New discoveries and science tell the story of how the ancient Mayans built such an incredible society in a tropical rainforest over 2000 years and then vanished.

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya ... of over 39 successive rulers. The heart of the site ...

of bad kings and good kings in very different ways. It shakes up our picture of who the Maya were.” The research examined three valleys, each containing the capital of an independent kingdom, ancient ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha ... under the reign of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal I (King Pakal the Great), the city was transformed from relative obscurity into a powerful Maya ...

The findings were made at an archaeological site known as Chochkitam, which was once an ancient Maya city. It is located in the dense rainforests of Petén, a region in northern Guatemala. The ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...